By John Richardson POLYOLEFIN end-users in China and Southeast Asia began to re-stock in significant numbers last week on anticipation that supply is going to remain tight for the next few weeks at least, the blog has been told. "There...
By John Richardson THE consequence of either a failure by the US to raise the debt ceiling and/or a downgrading of the country's Triple A debt rating would have obviously have serious consequences for the Asian and global chemicals industries....
Flagging Recovery Source of picture: www.guardian.co.uk By John Richardson THE latest US Institute of Supply Management survey signalled a buoyant manufacturing sector, in line with likely Q1 GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 5%, says the latest Weekly Chemistry...
More of the cheap stuff? Source of picture: www.thelocal.de Some of the China import data for September is now available - showing record-high imports of monoethylene glycol (MEG), ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), polyacetal, polycarbonate (PC). "I have given up...
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